Books

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson reviewed

The forgotten visionary of British India

Will Tripp Goes Hollywood by Harry Stein reviewed

Someone couldn’t seriously have called the police and told them I was a threat to my children

Only in fiction did Faulkner dare to reveal what he knew about the code of caste

Oversensitive readers can now line-edit novels by getting mad at their content on the internet

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn reviewed

Was Flannery O’Connor a racist, or was she not?

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams reviewed

The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari reviewed

Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s ‘Girl Stunt Reporters’ by Kim Todd reviewed

For an artist to qualify as a genius, he only has to do create a single masterpiece once. Twain did it twice

The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching reviewed

The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White reviewed

If the author was such a vile misogynist, why did so many women seem to find him so irresistible?

His new book may be self-help, but it’s self-help for people whose problems are fundamentally philosophical